Immanuel Kant
Biography
Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg. Kant was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment beginning with thinkers John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. Kant created a new perspective in philosophy which had widespread influences on philosophy continuing through to the 21st century. He published important works on epistemology, as well as works relevant to religion, law, and history. One of his most prominent works is the *Critique of Pure Reason*, an investigation into the limitations and structure of reason itself. It encompasses an attack on traditional metaphysics and epistemology, and highlights Kant's own contribution to these areas. The other main works of his maturity are the *Critique of Practical Reason*, which concentrates on ethics, and the *Critique of Judgment*, which investigates aesthetics and teleology. <sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
Quotes from Immanuel Kant
"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
965
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
966
"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
967
"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
968
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."
969
"One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him."
970
"Dare to think!"
971
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
972
"Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for."
973
"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."
974
"For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first."
975
"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them."
976
"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
977
"The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life."
978
"The death of dogma is the birth of morality."
979
"But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows."
980
"Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality."
981
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
982
"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."
983
"If the truth shall kill them, let them die."
984
"We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without."
985
"Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end."
986
"There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced."
987
"In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion."
988
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity."
989
"Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness."
990
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
991
"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."
992
"To be is to do."
993
"All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay."
994